Inbound texts automatically add country code, won't allow me to respond

I travel a great deal for work and spend most of my time overseas. Because of this, I have a local SIM I use in Europe (Vodafone). I have everything set up, texting, calling, data. However, everytime I receive an inbound text, the country code is automatically added, +39 in this instance. Everytime I try to respond to a text, it get the "Message Failed" notification. I AM, however, able to send texts while texting the respondents number manually, or using my contacts list, without country codes added. I've tried with Assisted Dialing off and on, with the current country configured properly. Any help with this is greatly appreciated, I've scoured Google for answers but nothing seems to work.

Yes, that worked with my son's ipod when we newly set it up. But my daughter didn't set up her game center right away and I think that had something to do with it.
But I found the answer!!! I kept searching the other discussions on this site and found the answer from BandomaM dated April 12, 2011.
He said to go into an existing game on the ipod that would allow multi players (we used fruit ninja). It will then prompt you to sign in using an existing account or create a new one. We used the existing and her Apple ID and confirmed the stuff and agreed. Then (as BandomaM put it) "BAM!" it worked!!! We are thrilled.
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